Foodlore Library

Yesterday, a friend and I spent the day in Newport, Oregon. We walked along the beach amid kelp and seaweed-covered rocks, around giant smelly piles of whip-like sea onions: bulbous on one end and slippery. We walked around patches of broken shells mixed with pieces of sea junk. The air was slightly misty and the ocean's voice was huge against mine. We wandered south along the beach, leaving watery tracks in the sand and exploring sea life: kelp, sensitive-to-the-touch anemones, and young barnacles.